PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 126.
The information minister for the province, Mushtaq Ghani, says most of the dead in Tuesday’s attack were students, children and teenagers, from the school.
The still-unfolding violence began in the morning hours, with about half a dozen gunmen entering the school. Two loud booms of unknown origin were heard coming from the scene in the early afternoon, as Pakistani troops exchanged fire with the attackers.
The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack, the country’s worst in more than a year.
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In 1980, we considered this such a good thing that we didn’t bother to report the actions of these freedom fighters. They were the equivalent of our founding fathers, after all.
This is what happens when a country makes no effort to keep heavy weaponry out of the hands of extremists. It’s an object lesson we’re cheerfully ignoring here at home, at our peril.
This is why I don’t object to drones. If the number of potential civilian casualties is equal to or less that the number the targets have or will have killed then do it. It’s the mathematics of misery.
Since we’ve been droning Pakistan, has the Pakistani Taliban become weaker, or stronger?
Any nincompoop who wants to paint all Muslims with the same brush (yes, I am talking to you, Bill Maher) just lost a couple of miles an hour off that fastball. I am pretty sure all those kids and teachers were Muslims.